An Introduction to Arabic Translation: Translator Training and Translation Practice
Hussein Abdul-Raof, "An Introduction to Arabic Translation: Translator Training and Translation Practice"
English | ISBN: 1032215550 | 2022 | 326 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1032215550 | 2022 | 326 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Combining theory and practice, this book is a model for Arabic translation and prepares students for the translation industry.
Containing 22 approaches, An Introduction to Arabic Translation provides the normative principles to guide training in Arabic-English-Arabic translation. It revitalizes Arabic-English-Arabic translation through its empirical textual reality, hinged upon Arabic and English authentic contexts and their linguistic, discoursal, and cultural incongruity. The exercises in each chapter provide practical training supported by translation theory. The translation commentaries included represent a critical translation quality assessment based on an analysis of discourse and textual features to highlight the process of translation, the translation approach adopted, and why. Such commentary invites students to reflect on their understanding of the translation process and the approach required for a given Arabic-English-Arabic translation problem.
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